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and it fits too
I have a minor love affair going on with this sweater. It appears in my dreams, unfinished yet compelling. I think about it, even when I can’t be with it. And every day, I eek out a little more time to spending knitting, even if it’s at 7 in the morning for a half hour before work.
This morning, I cast off the body. I chose to do something a little different with the lower edge. A simple k1p1 rib finishes off the reverse stockinette sections, and I altered the cable pattern for the final repeat to help it lie as flat as possible.
Keep in mind these photos are before a good blocking. For cabled sweaters, I always always ALWAYS wet block before wearing, especially with a bouncy wool like this Galway. A good, long soak helps everything open up and lie flat, even if it delays the instant gratification of wearing it right away.
I’m jumping ahead, though. I’m still a while from being ready to block. Two sleeves and a neckline treatment still to go. I’ll probably leave the neckline for last; I have some concepts in mind but haven’t decided how open I’d like to keep it. Part of me is pretty enamored with the graceful openness it has right now.
We’ll see.
The funny thing is, the color blue looks different in nearly every photo. It’s a bit elusive to capture and changes with the light and shadows of the day. The truest color is in the first photo here; a brilliant emerald blue, like a deep lake.
And oh yeah. It fits. Like a glove.
over again
I am not good at doing things over.
I don’t enjoy the process of revisiting projects, particularly when they didn’t work out on the first try. And yet, I’m a grown up. If the design is worth it, I’ll put myself through any number of attempts at ripping and reknitting.
Like this blue sweater. The first [...]
something blue
Way way back in the beginning of March, before I got the flu that knocked me out for 2 weeks, and before my Dad got sick again, I began the design you see pictured above. I even wrote about why I love designing raglans, using this something blue as inspiration.
And then, life got in [...]
